As a rule, the public is apathetic in the matter of adulteration, and errors of judgment, frequently inevitable under the present system, on the part of the analyst have led to his being regarded as the natural enemy of the tradesman. If some system of standardisation for food products were generally adopted, leaving the burden of proof of the genuineness of abnormal samples upon the seller, and if the element of chance in the administration of the law were reduced, this prejudice on the part of tradesmen in general would disappear, although with the dishonest dealer the public analyst would become more unpopular than in the past. INDEX Adulteration of food, 214 Agraphia, 78 Anthropometry, 50 Arsenic in beer, 231 Arsenic poisoning, 176, 181, 183 Bank-note forgeries, 102 Beck case, 41, 92 Beer conners, 217 Bertillonage, 50 Blandy, Mary, 181 Blood, structure of, 154 ---- stains identified, 155, 157 ----, serum test for, 162 Bloodhounds, 29 Briggs, murder of, 33 Brinkley poisoning case, 109, 116 Capture of criminals, 22 Catchpole, Margaret, 22 Charlesworth case, 28 Circumstantial detection, 33 ---- evidence, 11 Conflict of scientific evidence, 14, 19 Courvoisier, 4 Crippen case, 25, 167 Detective force, 2 Dodd, Dr., 140 Elizabethan ink, 107 Errors of eye-witnesses, 39 Essex, Earl of, 8 Fallibility of eye-witnesses, 37 Fauld's observations on finger-prints, 62 Finger-prints, 54 ----, detection by, 66, 68 ----, heredity in, 62 ----, identification by, 59 ----, persistence of, 58 ----, systems of classifying, 64, 67 Forged documents, 93 Forgery trials, 135 Gorse Hall murder, 41, 166 Gun-flash identification, 44 Hair, identification of, 167 ---- of animals, 169 Hale, trial of, 135 Handwriting, 70 ----, evidence as to, 85 ----, heredity in, 71 ----, hypnotic, 82 ----, formation of, 73 ---- in diseases, 78 ---- in insanity, 79 ---- in paralysis, 80 ----, mistakes as to, 92 ---- of Napoleon, 76 ---- experts, 87 Herculaneum papyri, 113 Herschel's finger-print system, 55 Hypnotic writing, 81 Ink in writing, 105 ---- ----, age of, 105, 110 ---- ----, differences in, 114 Insurance frauds, 8, 10 Lamson, Dr., 201 Laundry mark identification, 35 Lovibond's tintometer, 108 Matlock will case, 143 Maybrick trial, 18, 206 Microscope in forgery cases, 93 Milton's Bible, 108 Mirror writing, 80 Mistaken identity, 39, 41 Müller, 34 Nairn, Katharine, 183 Napoleon's signatures, 76 Ogilvie, trial of, 183 Overbury, murder of, 176 Palmer, trial of, 18, 191 Perreaus, trial of the, 136 Personal identification, 37 Photographic identification, 48 ---- detection of forgery, 95 Physiological tests, 195 Pilcher's trial, 111, 149 Poisons, definition of, 185 ----, miraculous effects of, 171